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Tuesday, August 12, 2008

alternative energy / price of oil

The discussion topics for the August 25, 2008 meeting are:

  1. The November ballot initiative Prop 10 to authorize the sale of $5 billion in general fund bonds to provide alternative energy rebates and incentives, covering only vehicles powered by natural gas.
  2. Is it good or bad for the price of oil to be high?
Regarding item #1:
Ballotpedia: Prop 10
Natural Gas: A Primer, Newsweek- NG Vehicles
From my blog on Peak Oil: (T. Boone) Pickens Plan

Regarding item #2:
From my Peak Oil blog: ethics
From another blogger: explaining the oscillations

1 comment:

John Weiser said...

wherein I pooh-pooh the need for more refineries when 'oil is running out' and respond to Leo with my thesis surrounding the word 'externalities'.